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Agenda: William Lewis: To the victor the spoils  Myners must stay on

THE BATTLE is won. Stuart Rose and Paul Myners have beaten Philip Green, and Marks & Spencer remains a public company.

Congratulations go to Rose, Myners, and their advisers, Robert Swannell of Citigroup, Simon Robey of Morgan Stanley and David Mayhew of Cazenove. They set out to see Green off, and they did.

Their tactics were often questionable, sometimes downright wrong, but they won, and Green lost. So Green is on holiday in Sardinia, and Rose and Myners are hard at work in M&S’s Baker Street offices.

But how long will the victorious team be together? After all, Myners is an interim chairman, and the presumption is that some time soon a permanent man or woman will be found. Let’s return to this later.

Meanwhile, the time for discussing Green’s effort to buy M&S is almost over. As Richard Fletcher and Peter Koenig point out in Focus: The one that